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Infantrymen is a book the reader won't want to put down as they accompany the author on a journey through the lives of four young Sheffield brothers: three lives that terminated on the battlefields of France and Flanders and for one, the War Hospital in Bradford. With an all-embracing level of detail, Mick Drewry has created a moving picture of a turn-of-the-century working-class family that had moved from the idyllic Lincolnshire countryside to the dark and dismal east end of Sheffield, capturing the personal stories of four young men's transition from infants to infantrymen. Whilst this is a must-read for anyone of Pridmore pedigree, this is a riveting book that those interested in local history, social history, military history, or genealogy will find fascinating. It grips the readers' emotions like no work of fiction could do because it is a real story-a story of love, of fear, of courage, of great personal loss and of grief. Infantrymen is an intensely moving piece of biography meticulously researched and skilfully written by a great-grandson of one of the Pridmore brothers; lest we forget!

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A former Sheffield steel worker and trade union convenor, Mick Drewry graduated from Sheffield Hallam University in 1997. He worked as a volunteer and then paid worker for a local community group before moving to Barnsley Council as a community development worker in 2002. Progressing to senior support worker, he took early retirement in 2010. Infantrymen is his fifth publication and fourth as author.

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